A Clockwork Orange: The Feelingless and Affectless Man, Living In a Mechanical Society In today's society the value of one's being has been abused. No longer do we foster the idea of nurturing our young, rather society has become detached from showing and sharing emotion. Becoming a society focused on technology, people have become merely objects of a mechanical society. Technology has reached an era of denaturing human nature; technology has made society lazy by making everything substitutable by inventions. Society has begun to follow a trend, thus believing nurturing parents and families are of the past. Modification advancements have started to replace tender loving care. Due to this rising trend families are no longer viewed as healthy, functional families, instead many children are not receiving the attention they deserve. After reviewing Anthony Burgesses A Clockwork Orange, one can locate a rising problem in today's society. Illustrating the need for acceptance to create personal success to find peace in one's life, A Clockwork Orange shows how being so deprived of love and support throughout adolescence can lead to a life of failure and violence. Thus, suggesting the true importance of a well structured support system. The role of society and behavior modification proves just how important individual attention can be and how unnecessary it is to condition a human being. Supporting this argument in all aspects, A Clockwork Orange provides a powerful insight to the extreme world of personal struggle and dehumanization. Family structures and household environments have always been a topic of the past, but now more than ever with behavior issues on the rise and society's high expectations, the finger should be pointed at the parental figure/ figures involved. The vital importance of parental support from a parental figure provides the backbone for ones individual up-bringing. Parents are the first people a child learns to trust, teaching the child how to create relationships with outside parties. Parents and families are considered the most important people in children's lives. All children rely on their parents for support regardless of whether it is a physical support or an emotional support, especially so during the early years of childhood. Hence, parents play an important role in all areas of a child's life including the child's character molding and also in all their learning skills. Providing a parental role in a child's life provides them with a sense of direction and belonging, without this guide a child is sure to lead astray. For instance, in A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess portrays this situation in his novel through his character Alex, a young teen whose actions are crying for attention and love. Struggling to find true affection, throughout the novel Alex displays many violent actions, all of which are due to his insecurity. Having no true direction from his mother and father, Alex finds himself on a metaphorical search for "HOME." According to Todd Davis, Alex's lack of any functional family system in which he can interact and mature with causes him to fulfill his own desires to belong and be accepted since he can not count on the abilities of others(4). Alex being at the age of adolescents is search for his own personal self as he struggles to fit in and be accepted, he goes about dressing in his own manner, using the Nadsat language, abusing drugs and violence. Alex naturally begins manufacturing his own artificial personality and traits while creating his own independence and personal self image. Creating his own being Alex turns to body image, drugs, language and friends to find a balance of security. Searching for masculinity, Alex tries to create his own manhood by extenuating his adolescent figure. Using imagines to conceal a manly identity, Alex tries to create a male authority figure in his life by making himself look much older. By giving himself sexual appeal, Alex...

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Burgess most notable literary device is his use of nadsat. An invented, hyper-intensive teen slang that joins bits of Russian and English, Alex uses nadsat to describe the world of A ClockworkOrange, “so you could peet it with vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom or one or two other veshches which would give you a nice quite horrorshow fifteen minutes.” At first, the novella feels distant and withdrawn, but Burgess purposefully employs this façade so the reader is removed from the violence that...

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A ClockworkOrange, by Anthony Burgess occurs in a dystopian futuristic Britain and explores the idea of using psychological conditioning to eliminate crime. The protagonist, Alex, a 15-year old in England suffering from Antisocial Personality disorder; a leader of a gang involved in violence, robbery, and rape. The book has two main themes and divided into three parts; the first part of the book focuses on Alex’s criminal lifestyle, the second focuses on Alex’s rehabilitation in prison, and the third is focused on Alex’s entry back into society.
Alex is a guide on a journey into a dystopian future where the youth commit crime by night and the authorities rival their indifferences to maintain societal status quo. Dystopia is a society characterized by human misery, squalor, oppression, etc., being the opposite of utopia, an ideal place or state. Most dystopian novels are written in the future where things have gone askew; the purpose is to examine current problems in society and predict how they might become a problem in the future.
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...“There is a little Alex in all of us”
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Within futuristic London, many sexual and heinous crimes are committed by a group of young men and the retaliation of their victims seeking vengeance, often acting as vigilantes. The domino effect of the crimes ends up with offenders turning into victims and vice versa.
A group of young men, self proclaimed as a gang of “droogs” dress up during the night in white outfits, hats and masks and go around the city committing street crimes, assaulting random innocent people, raping some and ultimately killing two. Within the gang of “droogs” there is a ringleader named Alex who dominates and intimidates the rest of the group, Dim, Georgie, and Pete. They all have a lack of conscience, remorse and demonstrate extreme violent behavior ultimately exhibiting sociopathic qualities.
The gang’s first victim within the case is a homeless man sleeping under a bridge. The four young men first wake and then proceed to beat the homeless man with batons, assaulting him as he begs them to stop while stating that the law is not like what it used to be. Clearly outnumbered and unable to protect himself as he is homeless and already laying on the ground while the gang stand tall with weapons, he is an ideal victim that the droogs overpower. His extreme vulnerability is the reason the droogs target him.
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‘A ClockworkOrange’ is a bildungsroman and dystopian novel about a teenager named Alex, a Beethoven-loving, head-bashing punk who leads his gang of “droogs” on “ultra-violent” assaults. In ‘A ClockworkOrange’ Burgess often uses language, form and structure to help the reader understand the bizarre, dystopian society in which it is set and the unique personality of Alex. Nadsat language often appears throughout the extract; we usually experience it through Alex or his droogs. We see the use of “vecks”, “cheenas”, “droogs” and “gulliver” during the extract. This use of language creates a feeling of individuality for Alex and other youths in this society. This may be seen as dangerous by older members of society or by the government as it is almost an attempt by youths to exclude themselves from society, which may be a threat to their collective society. Alex and his droogs also appear as a danger to society as Alex sees violence as a hobby or pastime and we see a very callous side to his nature through his sadistic acts of cruelty; this is emphasised by him “scaring old vecks and cheenas”. Alex often describes his acts of violence as “horrorshow”, which peculiarly means good. This glorification of violence again emphasises his vicious and reckless nature. We see further evidence of Alex’s casual violence where Burgess writes “half...